This gorgeous file photo by Bernard, Ships of Sail on Pinterest, captures the style of ARM Cuauhtémoc as the Mexican Navy crew proudly straddle the tall ship’s soaring rigging. The ship arrived in Baltimore yesterday as part of a festival marking the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Bicentennial. Click on the image for a full schedule from Sail Baltimore of tall ship arrivals in the Chesapeake.

Click on the image to learn how last week Puerto Rico’s Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera was honored by the Goldman Environmental Foundation. Herrera mounted a sustained fight against powerful government and hotel interests to establish the Northeast Ecological Corridor (pictured above) as a wildlife sanctuary. Photo: Wikipedia

Citizens all over the Kingdom have welcomed the recent statement made by Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, in which he said the new water tariff will be reviewed. — Citizens hail Muhammad’s decision on water tariff, Saudi Gazette, 4/21/16

Coca-Cola – which has annual revenues of more than $60 billion – takes water from a pure spring near Putaruru in the Waikato for its Pump brand. They pay next to nothing while I pay close to $5 for a small bottle of it every time I go to a sports event. — Columnist Duncan Garner, We’re a bunch of drips for giving away our water, Dominion Post, 4/23/16

“It is not a matter of if GE will undertake a cleanup, but a matter of how it will be done.” — General Electric statement on how it will comply with an EPA plan to remove polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, dumped by the company in the Housatonic River, A man, a canoe, a mission, Boston Globe, 4/20/16

The Department of Environmental Conservation said the [gas pipeline] project’s construction would affect 251 streams and 500 acres of valuable forest as well as extensive wetlands. — New York regulators reject water quality permit, New York Daily News, 4/22/16

A lone basketball floats implausibly in the middle of a tank filled with water. At once mystical and planetary, the basketball is also ordinary, evocative of childhood memories of playing in the backyard. — Bound to Fail, Christie’s auction catalog description of Jeff Koons’ “One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank,” 4/22/16

“The real world won’t always adapt to them.” — Toronto psychotherapist Sherry Holt about a restaurant customer with post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and germaphobia who sued over the presence of lemon in his water glass, Steakhouse loses $12,000 human rights tribunal ruling, National Post, 4/21/16

The Department of Water Resources’ initial State Water Project (SWP) allocation, announced in December, was 10 per cent of requests. As storms developed, the allocation was increased to 15 per cent on January 26, then to 30 per cent on February 24 and 45 per cent on March 17. Today’s boost to a 60 per cent allocation is mostly due to March storms that soaked Northern California after a mostly dry February. — State Water Project allocation increased, California Department of Water Resources, 4/21/16

… the reef covers an area larger than Delaware—some 3,600-square miles, stretching from the French Guiana border to Brazil’s Maranhão State—and likely supports many species previously unknown to science. The reef is so odd, in fact, that its discoverers believe it may constitute an entirely new type of ecological community. —Shining light on Brazil’s secret coral reef, Smithsonian, 4/22/16